Life Science

Properties, sources and uses of the element xenon.

Aquaculture industry may be vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

Kids may use little sounds and air puffs as stand-ins for grammatical words.

A survey of children with food allergies showed that a third of them reported being bullied with threatening behavior.

Some futurists predict humans will be able to upload their consciousness to computers in the near future.

A letter to the Editor.

A letter to the Editor.

A letter to the Editor.

A team of researchers has identified a highly promising new anti-tuberculosis compound that attacks the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium in two different ways. Although isoniazid and rifampin, two front-line TB drugs, came into use in 1952 and 1967 respectively, new TB infections still occur at the rate of roughly one per second. At any moment about a third of the existing human population is infected. Though it is mostly winactive, latent TB, active TB still kills over one million people each year, with Russia, Africa, China and Southeast Asia especially hard hit. read more

Independent reviews of clinical trial data concluded that Infuse, a bioengineered bone product, was not significantly better than a traditional bone graft, and that it might pose risks.